Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Graveyard Rats
    Graveyard Rats
    Graveyard Rats
    Ebook39 pages49 minutes

    Graveyard Rats

    By Robert E. Howard

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Despite an aversion to the detective formula, he wrote the tales in Graveyard Rats during the same years he chronicled the adventures of Conan. This collection features a new introduction by scholar Don Herron, editor of „The Dark Barbarian,” the definitive look at the life and work of Robert E. Howard.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKtoczyta.pl
    Release dateMar 14, 2018
    ISBN9788381487320
    Graveyard Rats

    Read more from Robert E. Howard

    Related to Graveyard Rats

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Find A New Home For Your Hauntings

      Oct 1, 2020

      Dark Moon Books editorial team promotes dark fiction by publishing multi-author anthologies and single author collections plus the occasional novel. They want ‘unusual and invigorating dark fiction’ which is ‘experimental, innovative, or progressive…

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Wrong Side Of History

      Oct 10, 2021

      As blood pumped from the gash on his neck and the world before his eyes darkened, Senator Arnold McCoy’s last conscious thought was to wonder if being assassinated was enough to put him on the right side of history. It was his birthday. Surely, he co

      27 min read

    • Article

      A Cosmology Of Monsters

      Jun 17, 2020

      RELEASED 30 JUNE 448 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Shaun Hamill Publisher Titan Books Shaun Hamill’s debut arrives with a fierce buzz and a glowing Stephen King cover quote. That feels apt. A Cosmology Of Monsters may riff heavily on HP Lovecraft’s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Paul Tremblay

      Jun 17, 2020

      IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF MY BIGGEST FEARS that I would live to see the end of everything,” says Paul Tremblay, speaking to SFX from his Massachusetts home in the middle of lockdown. It’s a singularly peculiar time, and a peculiar interview for him to

      3 min read

    • Article

      13 More Medieval Queens

      Feb 18, 2021

      Known as the Lady of the Mercians, Æthelflæd was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great of Wessex. Though she played an important role in Anglo-Saxon England, her story is often overshadowed by her more famous father. Æthelflæd was born during a cha

      8 min read

    • Article

      Wow Women

      May 19, 2020

      I was thrilled to see that you opened The Fix pages of the April issue with a paragraph about fierce mythological women. It is fabulous to see strong women celebrated in mythology, when in our culture we typically read fairy tales in which women and

      1 min read

    • Article

      Jenkins

      Feb 4, 2021

      Jenkins
      6 min read

    • Article

      Ecotone

      Sep 12, 2020

      Ecotone
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Curse of the Unlucky Mummy: When science and fear collide, a supernatural story thrives.

      Apr 10, 2014

      Sometime in the 1860s, five recent Oxford graduates took a trip to Egypt. Together they sailed down the Nile, a tourist attraction even then. To remember their trip, they bought a souvenir in the mummy pits of Deir el-Bahri—the coffin lid of a priest

      10 min read

    • Article

      Gothic Revival

      Oct 1, 2020

      Gothic Revival
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ready Player Two

      Dec 30, 2020

      Ready Player Two
      2 min read

    • Article

      Remastering The Mythos: Questions For Ruthanna Emrys

      May 4, 2017

      When Ruthanna Emrys first read H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," her sympathies were squarely with the monsters — and that sympathy was the seed of her new book, Winter Tide.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Do Sex Dolls Dream of Electric Sheep? On Alissa Nutting’s ‘Made for Love’

      Jul 5, 2017

      Let’s just put it out there: go read this book. The post Do Sex Dolls Dream of Electric Sheep? On Alissa Nutting’s ‘Made for Love’ appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Brief History of Witch Hunts

      Dec 1, 2017

      1500s-1600s: Social upheaval and sectarianism lead to witch trials across Europe—tens of thousands are executed. Older women, outcasts, and healers are particularly vulnerable. The trials, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English note in their book Wit

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Witch’s Heart

      May 19, 2021

      RELEASED 4 MAY 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Genevieve Gornichec Publisher Titan Books Loki was a bit of a player back in the day, fathering children all over the place – he even gave birth to an eight-legged horse himself (try telling

      1 min read

    • Article

      All Our Hidden Gifts

      May 19, 2021

      RELEASED 27 MAY 400 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Caroline O’Donoghue Publisher Walker Books This YA mystery, set in Ireland, is a lesson in the perils of fortune-telling. Maeve is a teenager who stumbles upon some old tarot cards and uncovers a tal

      1 min read

    • Article

      Hellbent and Hydebound

      Oct 19, 2022

      Where Stevenson’s contemporaries explored specific tensions within the Victorian psyche, 'Jekyll and Hyde' pinned the split personality of the era to the page. The post Hellbent and Hydebound appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Lay Your Burden Down

      Mar 1, 2019

      Lay Your Burden Down
      15 min read

    • Article

      Crescent City

      Dec 1, 2021

      Crescent City
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Graveyard Rats

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Graveyard Rats - Robert E. Howard

      Robert E. Howard

      Graveyard Rats

      Warsaw 2018

      Contents

      I. THE HEAD FROM THE GRAVE

      II. MADMAN'S HATE

      III. THE FEATHERED SHADOW

      IV. RATS IN HELL

      V. THE RATS EAT

      I. THE HEAD FROM THE GRAVE

      SAUL WILKINSON awoke suddenly, and lay in the darkness with beads of cold sweat on his hands and face. He shuddered at the memory of the dream from which he had awakened.

      But horrible dreams were nothing uncommon. Grisly nightmares had haunted his sleep since early childhood. It was another fear that clutched his heart with icy fingers–fear of the sound that had roused him. It had been a furtive step–hands fumbling in the dark.

      And now a small scurrying sounded in the room–a rat running back and forth across the floor.

      He groped under his pillow with trembling fingers. The house was still, but imagination peopled its darkness with shapes of horror. But it was not all imagination. A faint stir of air told him the door that gave on the broad hallway was open. He knew he had closed that door before he went to bed. And he knew it was not one of his brothers who had come so subtly to his room.

      In that fear-tense, hate-haunted household, no man came by night to his brother’s room without first making himself known.

      This was especially the case since an old feud had claimed the eldest brother four days since–John Wilkinson, shot down in the streets of the little hill-country town by Joel Middleton, who had escaped into the post oak grown hills, swearing still greater vengeance against the Wilkinsons.

      All this flashed through Saul’s mind as he drew the revolver from under his pillow.

      As he slid out of bed, the creak of the springs brought his heart into his throat, and he crouched there for a moment, holding his breath and straining his eyes into the darkness.

      Richard was sleeping upstairs, and so was Harrison, the city detective Peter had brought out to hunt down Joel Middleton. Peter’s room was on the ground floor, but in another wing. A yell for help might awaken all three, but it would also bring a hail of lead at him, if Joel Middleton were crouching over there in the blackness.

      Saul knew this was his fight, and must be fought out alone, in the darkness he had always feared and hated. And all the time sounded that light, scampering patter of tiny feet, racing up and down, up and down...

      Crouching against the wall, cursing the pounding of his heart, Saul fought to steady his quivering nerves. He was backed against the wall which formed the partition between his room and the hall.

      The windows were faint grey

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1